And it comes with AKG headphones in the box... with a normal headphone jack! Wonder what that's about, eh?

11.47 - It's water resistant as well, up to IP68, and it's wireless charge-compatible. 'As for the competition? Let's just say... they're trying to catch up'.

That's fair. None of the other big players aren't doing the same thing with wireless charging... it'll be interesting to see what Apple does.

11.46 - There's 64GB on board, but you can also expand the memory using a microSD card up to 256GB. (Or one week of selfies, according to Denison's 12 year old. He needs to have his phone taken off him once in a while).

11.45 - 'We've set a new standard for the smartphone industry.' That's a bit much, but this is a pretty powerful phone. Better than any Note Samsung has ever made... which you'd hope for, really.

That said, it's so, so expensive. £869 (which should be around $950/AU$1200)

11.44 - JD IS BACK! (Justin Denison).

11.43 - They're collaborating over how well the picture in Lightroom is exposed...seems a bit weird to me. Just do it yourself, buddy. You can do this.

11.41 - Jon uses DeX at home and the office. He strolls down the Highline each day and doesn't take a laptop. You can have a video chat with people using Zoom to video conference then keep it going when you get into the office... that's never going to happen, come on.

What about Google Hangouts? Surely more people use that...

11.40 - Now we're onto DeX, the dock where you can use the phone to do productivity stuff and then click it in to a large screen and mouse without an issue.

We've seen this, and it's pretty rapid and could be a good laptop replacement... if you carry the phone around with you a lot.

11.39 - Bixby is going to work with Spotify - and there will be more announcements at the developer conference in October. Bixby really needs more apps supported, so this is a good move.

But... what if someone sees you say goodnight to your phone? Another human notices you doing that?

11.37 - There's not a lot of new things on offer here for the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and Bixby - it's just launched at the time when the Note 8 came out.

One of the new things, though, is the ability to set shortcuts, giving a simple command to do a lot of things at once. Be it changing the screen quality or taking a kind of picture and saving it to a pre-defined album.

Screen off memo is back, but you can keep writing and writing and writing for pages without turning on the screen.

11.30 - Now we're hearing about Pen Up, the place where users can share their S-Pen-created images. Ooooh, coloring book templates. That actually is nice.

COME ON, coloring in is cool. Right... right?

11.29 - Samsung's ability to change the focus after the shot is cool though - that may confuse some people, but the Note user is generally a bit more technically savvy, so it should be OK.

'You never need to worry about charging or pairing the S Pen.' ZING!

11.27 - Samsung is making it sound like it's invented background defocus instantly. When in reality the new thing is live background defocus (called Live Focus) where you can see in real life how much blur you have.

You can do this before or after the shot though, so there's no pressure. The demo was a bit embarrassing - the audience is clapping a defocused picture.

11.25 - We're onto the camera now - the Note 8 has a dual camera. One is a tele-lens, and the other is wide-angle. And both have optical image stabilisation.

Oh no, we're seeing the difference between a phone with and without OIS - hey, 2012 called, it wants its demo back.*

11.21 - Denison is having a lovely time explaining about how he's addicted to caffeine. He's talking about how the Note just fits into his life - with the large screen to see what's happening, multi-tasking with the split screen, and how you can open two apps at once when swiping from the left.

11.19 - Samsung is really going on about the community, about how the fans push Samsung to keep doing more stuff.

Confirming the Infinity Display to the Note 8. In a preview, it was clear that the edges of the Note are even more aggressively curved, to give more space to write (according to Samsung). It's still got the same 18:9 (ish) ratio too.

11.18 - 'You're not just dreamers, you're doers.' He just gets me.

11.17 - It's Justin Denison, Senior VP of product strategy on stage now. 'It's great to be back at Unpacked to tell you about the Note 8.' He doesn't sound excited.

Samsung would have to walk on water to make the Note 8 a viable buy. It’s CEO did just that.

11.13 - We've still not seen the Galaxy Note 8 yet, despite loads of coverage going live across the internet.

FYI - it's basically the Galaxy S8 Plus, with a 6.3-inch screen, 6GB of RAM and a dual camera, along with an enhanced S Pen.

Oh man, I just wrote all that and now it's been announced. THE GALAXY NOTE 8 IS REAL!

(Wait... there's loads of flashing lights and dramatic music first.... NOW it's here, as Koh has just run on stage with it).

11.12 - Koh is now talking about how Samsung was the first to be IP68 rated, with wireless charging and have iris scanning. This feels like lightly-barbed comments about the iPhone 8 that's expected to have these features.

11.09 - He's still going on about how brilliant the Note is - how the Note user is someone different in the smartphone arena. 'People who look at the world and see unlimited possibilities.'

75% of users say the Note is the best phone they've ever owned. Doesn't really seem enough, thinking about it.

11.08 - He's back talking about how Samsung messed up last year - and thankful to the Note community for sticking with them. Ruining the surprise if wasn't done so already, DJ...

11.07 - DJ Koh is on stage, and he's talking up the new phone - we just haven't heard which one it is. (It's the Note 8. Here's our hands on: Samsung Galaxy Note 8 review. Sorry to ruin the surprise.

11.05 - The fun has started - and fair play to Samsung, as it's just done a big section on how it has messed up with the Galaxy Note 7. It did say how much people were sad to have lost a great phone, but still, it referenced it.

10:45am - You can tune in to watch the livestream of the Galaxy Note 8 Unpacked event below.

10:10am - We're now waiting outside at the Samsung Unpacked event in New York. Only an hour left to go until we get to see everything we need to know about the Galaxy Note 8.

Here's what the queue looks like for the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 launch.

7:40am - We've just published an interview on Samsung's Bixby tech with Injong Rhee, Executive VP and Head of R&D, Software and Services for Samsung Mobile.

In the feature, Rhee explains his vision for the new voice assistant technology and how he hopes it will change the way you use your phone. You can read the full interview here.

7:15am - Samsung's Galaxy Note 8 price has leaked with Carphone Warehouse putting it live early and says it's £869. That matches previous leaks we've seen and also suggests the phone will cost about $950 in the US and around AU$1200 in Australia.

4.30am - The sun is yet to rise over New York, but anticipation is already high as the world eagerly awaits the arrival of the Galaxy Note 8.

Samsung will hope it's banished the daemons from the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco, with a forward looking focus for its latest big-screen smartphone.

Join us straight after the event too, as we'll be doing a live Q&A on YouTube to answer all your questions on Samsung's latest big reveal.